Re: Anansi-The-Spider

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Part 4

At that same moment, the loud siren of a police car was heard around the building. Minutes later, two policemen walked into the huge hallway with Dr. Andoh. They paused at the entrance when they saw the whole floor littered with unconscious Red Ants. One of the cops cursed out loud while another immediately began to call for backup while walking toward Jo and Dr. Powell.

“Time for illusions”, Jo said and Dr. Powell nodded. Jo then put an invisibility illusion on himself. The cop that was approaching Dr. Powell was distracted with the backup he was calling so he didn’t see how Jo suddenly disappeared. When he reached Dr. Powell, he asked, “Where did your friend go?”
From the ground, the tiny voice of Emma Hanson replied in a pant, “He vanished into thin air. He’s some kind of sorcerer”.
“Uh-huh”, the policeman replied then turned to Dr. Powell, “Sir, please we’ll need your friend for questioning, and you too”.
Dr. Powell replied, “I’m sorry but you have the whole situation mistaken. The man you saw here, all I know about him is that he saved everybody in this room from this lady and her evil uncle.”
“And those things on the floor? What in Mother Earth’s name are those?” the cop asked.
“Those things there are young men that have been mutated using some chemicals. When your reinforcements arrive, I can escort you and your men to the laboratory where all of this took place”.
While they spoke, more policemen and eventually the medial arrived. Pictures, video, audio and whatsoever information was being passed.
While Dr. Powell explained the situation to the cop, Jo, who was standing there under the illusion saw that Delali; who was previously kneeling near the Joel’s corpse, was walking toward them.
When he reached them, he simply walked past them to where the Emma Hanson was kneeling down.
In one swing of his hand, he clout off her head and everyone in the room watched as her head fell to the ground and roll off; and her body to another side. The media and everyone else rushed to where Delali stood.
Delali jumped onto one of the highest stands in the hall and shouted out, “AND THIS IS WHAT SHALL BEFALL ANY WHO RAISES HIS HAND AGAINST JUSTICE. FOR FIVE YEARS THE LAW AND THE GOVERNMENT AND THE POLICE COULD NOT NOTICE AND GIVE THE UNDERGROUND VILLAGE OF RED ANTS JUSTICE. ALL IT TOOK WAS ONE MAN. A VIGILANTE; THE SPIDER THAT CALLS HIMSELF ANANSI. ANANSI-THE-SPIDER SAVED ME FROM THE CURSE OF SLAVERY.”
At this moment, Delali began to transform in front of everyone’s eyes. He began to transform into his insect form and spoke as he did so, “I HEREBY NAME MYSELF RED HUNTER AND I SHALL SERVE JUSTICE IN MY OWN WAY. I WILL KILL CRIMINALS AND ANYONE WHO STANDS IN MY WAY”.
Just as he ended his sentence, a strong punch reached his jaw and threw him off to break one statue in the room and hit the wall behind it. It was Jo who had delivered the punch; and he had removed the illusion in order to deliver a much stronger punch. All the cameras got a moment to shoot the hooded hero before he made himself invisible again.
Everyone was very amazed when they saw the hooded person appear, punch Red Hunter and disappear again. Everyone was mentioning the name that Red Hunter had given him. When the policemen tried to surround Red Hunter, he simply laughed and then shouted, “WE SHALL MEET AGAIN ANANSI-THE-SPIDER, WE CERTAINLY WILL.” He ignored the policemen, jumping over them, and then hopping from wall to wall; he went high enough till he reached the highest window and broke out through it.

Back in the University…
Jo had packed all his bags in front of his hall and was waiting for one of the school taxis to pass by. A 4-wheel drive that Jo all too well recognized pulled over near him.
“Going to Nkran?” he heard Jack Powell’s voice say from inside the car. “Hop in”
They drove in front of Dr. Anoki’s house and he waved at them and made the sign of a fist at them before they departed. “What does the fist mean when people wave it at you here in Ghana?” Dr. Powell asked while they drove away.
Ignoring the question, Jo asked Dr. Powell, “Why are you going to Nkran?”
The young lecturer looked at Jo for a second before looking back on the road. He then asked, “What did you think Jo? Did you think this was the end of everything?”
“Listen Jack, at that moment, I was going to give Emma a cold death. I felt myself killing her. I can’t trust myself or that totem anymore. Nothing is going to define me as a killer, no matter what it gives me in return.” Jo replied.
“That wasn’t you Jo; that was the totem. Remember what Dr. Anoki said, that was your divine state. You control but a tenth of yourself in that state. That’s why it was a good idea to leave it with Dr. Anoki. But you are still powerful without the totem. You’re still superhuman. Even better, none of the cameras could get your face under the hood. We’ll need to be more careful about that”, Dr. Powell replied.
“So why are you going to Nkran?” Jo asked again.
“Anansi-the-Spider cannot work alone. He needs an ally. He needs me.” Dr. Andoh replied and Jo smiled his gratitude to his best friend
“Anyway,” Jo said, “it means BE STRONG… If someone waves his fist at you here in Ghana,”

END of EPISODE 1

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Jo and Dr. Powell had been in the nation’s capital, Nkran, for only 48 hours and they already knew that a everything was wrong. The streets were ruled by gangs; gangs and cops had no issues; but somehow, there was always a gang war going on.
Those on the top were very corrupt and mostly preferred to focus on how they gained from the nation’s economy. A hero was needed and fast. If not controlled, the situation might end up making everyone a criminal; a City of Criminals.
Dr. Powell had rented a hotel for them to stay in before they start settling in. Looking down from a high window into the bright lights on the streets on Nkran, Jo said, “This place is horrible. I cannot stand for all this injustice. Those responsible must be punished. Everyone must know that Anansi-the-Spider is here in Nkran and he wouldn’t rest until every criminal scumbag is lying where they belong; behind bars.”

Watch out for PART 2